Updated: 2003-09-23 11:46

IEEE 754 Floating Point

There are some fine points about the IEEE 754 Floating Point standard that may interest you.  Here are pointers to some pages that talk about them:

http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/courses/cs341/IEEE-754references.html

This next page has a nice summary of the "special" reserved bit patterns:

Web Author: Ian! D. Allen idallen@idallen.ca      Updated: 2003-09-23 11:46

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